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Antique scent bottles

I started my collection of scent bottles more than forty years ago. Made of different materials over a long period from antiquity to 1940, they now comprise a collection of over 1200 pieces produced mostly in Europe, but not only. All containers are no taller than 9 cm (3 inches).

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Soviet-era silver bottle depicting the Moscow Kremlin Clock Tower

Soviet-era silver bottle depicting the Moscow Kremlin Clock Tower. Screw cap on a chain. Russian Soviet-era standard silver hallma...

Silver scent bottle of the Sovietic period showing the “Taras Shevchenko Monument’, in Kharkov (Ukraine)

Silver scent bottle of the Sovietic period showing the "Taras Shevchenko Monument', built in 1935 in Kharkov (Ukraine), depicting ...

Flask-shaped porcelain scent bottle, souvenir of Lourdes (FR)

Flask-shaped porcelain scent bottle, souvenir of Lourdes (FR). Gilt cork stopper and suspension metal chain. Marked "Limoges-Made ...

Painted porcelain scent bottle showing a Dutch scene with a boy and a crying girl

Painted porcelain scent bottle showing a Dutch scene with a boy and a crying girl in relief. Sail boats in the back. Screw brass c...

Painted porcelain scent bottle showing a Dutch scene with a boy and a laughing girl, souvenir of Scheveningen

Painted porcelain scent bottles showing a Dutch scene with a boy and a laughing girl in relief. On the back the word Scheveningen,...

WW1 Trench Art – Embossed metal scent bottle showing ‘A dream of Peace’

Round flat scent bottle made of embossed metal (bullet shell) during the First World War, showing a couple of doves on a branch an...

Silver plated scent bottle, souvenir of Mont Saint Michel (FR)

Silver plated scent bottle, pillow shaped, souvenir of Mont Saint Michel. Screw cap.

Heart-shaped porcelain scent bottle souvenir of the “Palacio de industria y Arte Antiguo Sevilla – 1929

Heart-shaped porcelain scent bottle showing the "Palacio de industria y Arte Antiguo Sevilla"; brass mounted with screw cap; prob...

Oval porcelain scent bottle, souvenir of the Palace of Justice in Bruxelles

Flat oval porcelain scent bottle, souvenir of Bruxelles, showing the Palace of Justice. Brass mount and hinged cap.

Pendant porcelain scent bottle, souvenir of the Theatre of the Monnaie, Bruxelles (B)

Ovoid porcelain scent bottle, souvenir of Bruxelles, showing the Theatre of the Monnaie. Brass mount and screw cap with suspension...

Porcelain scent bottle, souvenir of Stratford on Avon

Porcelain scent bottle made for the English souvenirs market. It figures a little girl sitting against a tree trunk liberally deco...

Augarten porcelain scent bottle, with monogram

Augarten porcelain scent bottle, exagonal-shaped, richly decorated in gold with the Austrian eagle and the monogram VÖB on one sid...